Comments on: Rabid-right Republicans, as usual, resist long-needed change in hypocritical and bigoted ideashttp://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/47029
The oldest political news site on the InternetSun, 02 Aug 2015 05:00:36 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: Keithhttp://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/47029/comment-page-1#comment-243858
Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:43:20 +0000http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=47029#comment-243858It would appear that Sinclair Lewis absolutely got it right when he wrote that: “When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a cross,”
]]>By: Danny Adamshttp://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/47029/comment-page-1#comment-243839
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:06:33 +0000http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=47029#comment-243839“They misquote the Bible…They claim less government is preferable…”

And they justify their beliefs as what the “Founding Fathers intended” by dredging up fake Founding Father quotes they find on the Internet.

A couple of years or so back somebody in Roanoke even went so far as to pay for a billboard with the phony George Washington God-and-the-Bible-make-the-best-government quote, which is a venerable hoax as such things go since it dates all the way back to the 1930s.

]]>By: Sandy Pricehttp://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/47029/comment-page-1#comment-243784
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:31:46 +0000http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=47029#comment-243784Dr. Asimov was a successful writer and philosopher.
]]>By: Jonhttp://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/47029/comment-page-1#comment-243680
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:41:08 +0000http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=47029#comment-243680The idea is precision. It’s great to be right, but all the knives in the drawer, although sharp, don’t mind a little more sharpening.

Dr. Isaac Asimov, in an essay called ‘The Relativity of Wrong’, described those who think the Earth is flat as wrong. Those who think the Earth is a sphere are also wrong, but they’re a lot closer to correct than the former.

It’s an asymmetrical oblate spheroid, for those taking notes. Being close to perfect is desirable, and getting closer more so, even if the ultimate goal is unattainable.

Again, I point out these things not to be nasty, but to be constructive. To make better.

J.

]]>By: Sandy Pricehttp://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/47029/comment-page-1#comment-243671
Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:11:03 +0000http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=47029#comment-243671Leave me out of this J. I read Doug’s comments for what they have to say. He’s the chief! I will comment when he is dead wrong but not for a misspell. My eyes are so old and faulty that everything looks good to me.
]]>By: Jonhttp://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/47029/comment-page-1#comment-243669
Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:41:31 +0000http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=47029#comment-243669I shipped off a fax to a U.S. Representative about their support of another federal Representative who, while advocating outlawing all abortions, was pestering their wife and and their mistress to have abortions (which they both did).

Such was the ‘one rule for them, another, different, rule for me’ point that I tried to get across.

Granted, I was being somewhat snarky, and I didn’t expect much answer. My expectations were completely fulfilled – I got no answer. J.

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Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:21:04 +0000http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=47029#comment-243668PS – Love your rants, Mr. Thompson, but you too could make use of the ‘preview’ button before posting.

You may delete this comment when you find the egregiously obvious typo in the 3rd paragraph (So could you, Sandy. I kvetch because I care).

J.

]]>By: Jonhttp://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/47029/comment-page-1#comment-243667
Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:17:12 +0000http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=47029#comment-243667Actually, I believe the rabid right does turn out in full force for every election. As it happens, though, there just aren’t that many of them – The noise they make is wildly out of proportion to their numbers, and this is still (most of the time, and in most places) a Democratic Republic.

J.

]]>By: Sandy Pricehttp://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/47029/comment-page-1#comment-243644
Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:32:05 +0000http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=47029#comment-243644Well put Brysn. I shudder to think I ever associated with any of them. It was the introduction to the social issues that tore all the integrity out of the whole lot.

I got a note off to Jeff Flake this morning hoping he can stop being a Mormon long enough to be an American.

I like your use of the word “shame.” My grandmother used that word a lot and we all felt it as a terrible word when it was directed at us.

]]>By: bryan mcclellanhttp://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/47029/comment-page-1#comment-243623
Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:53:28 +0000http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=47029#comment-243623Most times a bloody nose will deter a bully but the American Tali-Ban right wingers continue to bleed arrogance, whilst fawning ignorance of the fact that the times they truly are a changing, and so continue to ride their high horse in the low valleys of their obvious shame.
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